Hussen suspected many senior employees of corruption and foreign espionage

Evidence

The prime minister had his own list of senior employees whom he suspected of exploiting their position for self-enrichment or passing confidential state information to foreign interests. He asked the police and his staff to investigate these people, who concluded that many on the list were involved in illicit activities. When the final tally of the dismissed, particularly at director-general level, was made public it was a professional and political earthquake. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 793